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Kristen Ward Broz

1700 K Street, NW Suite 650
Washington, DC 20006
202.540.7170 ph
202.540.7201 fax
kward@hausfeldllp.com
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Kristen Ward Broz is an associate at Hausfeld LLP, where she focuses on antitrust, mass tort, international, and financial services law. She is currently involved in several matters, including Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation MDL 2047, alleging damages to class members’ homes, personal property and bodies arising from defective drywall, Khulumani v. Barclays National Bank Ltd., alleging that defendant multi-national corporations aided and abetted the commission of crimes against humanity by the security forces of the apartheid regime, and Stationary Engineers Local 39 Pension Trust Fund v. Bank of New York Mellon, alleging damages resulting from defendant’s practice of deceptively assigning fictitious foreign currency exchange rates to class members’ purchases and sales of foreign securities.

Prior to joining the firm, Kristen served as a research assistant to Professors Sonia Suter and Jerome Barron at The George Washington University Law School. She also worked in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission and the Office of General Counsel of the National Wildlife Federation.

Education

University of Virginia, B.A. English and History, 2006

The George Washington University Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2011

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia

Virginia

Affiliations and Honors

Recipient of Judge Albert H. Grenadier Award for Excellence in Oral Advocacy

Assistant Professor, Capitol College (2011 – 2012)

Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator, 2012 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

Associate, The George Washington International Law Review (2009 - 2011)

Third Place for Memorials, Mid-Atlantic Regional Round of the 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

Finalist, Grenadier International Law Moot Court Competition (2010)

Member, Moot Court Board (2010 – 2011)

Member, Mock Trial Board (2009 – 2011)

Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Board (2008 – 2011)

Publications

Kristen M. Ward, Telecommunications Law, guide to international legal research, ch. 23 (Geo. Wash. Int'l Law Rev. ed., Matthew Bender 2011)

Kristen M. Ward, Book Review of Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter, Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy (United States Institute of the Peace Press, 2010) to be published in Volume 43.1 of the Geo. Wash. Int’l Law Rev